Page 3149 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 17 November 1992

Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .

---

MINISTER FOR URBAN SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 360

School Bus Services - Kaleen High School

Mr Cornwell - asked the Minister for Urban Services:

(1) Is it a fact that school-buses travel daily from Silence and Evatt to Baleen High School.

(2) How many such buses travel daily and approximately how many students are carried (a) morning and (b) afternoon.

(3) How long have these. services operated.

(4) Are these suburbs within Kaleens school catchment area and:

if so, why are these buses operating to that high school and

not the designated high school for.-these suburbs.

Mr Connolly - the answer to the members question is as follows:

(1) Yes

(2) 1 dedicated bus and 4 shared buses .

(a). approximately 67

(b) approximately 75

(3) Since approximately 1979

(4) Until the early 1980s part of Evatt fell within Kaleens catchment area. Since then Evatt has been removed from Baleens catchment area.

At the time these services started the schools and the then ACT Schools Authority decided where school runs were needed. ACTION now decides on the school runs, and has kept these operating due.. to the patronage levels. .

3149

---

Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .